IoT/M2MIWG/Weekly call minutes

The Machine-to-Machine Industry Working Group is holding weekly calls on Tuesday at 9amET.Participation to these calls is restricted to members of the IWG, but the minutes are public.

The meetings are held via teleconference. The regular call-in numbers are shown below (if possible, please used caller paid numbers). There are a few local / toll-free dial in numbers, but you may want to setup a SIP client on your computer if possible.

Mihini update

m2m.eclipse.org permanent demo

Sierra team working on setting up hardware and web UI for a 24/7 greenhouse demo

Same greenhouse should be usable for any server-side platform

Axeda interested in having the demo compatible with its platform

Thomas: eTrice could be used for simulating the system control, visualizing the changing data

EclipseCon France

Meeting of the IWG the day before, June 4th

Upcoming Events

M2M World Congress: Ian and Benjamin to speak. Should Eclipse and partner have a booth

Ian, Mike Milinkovich and Peter will talk in Atlanta, on May 7th, about OASIS MQTT initiative, M2M...

Kepler democamps

June: democamp and hackathons all around the world

Would be great to have people volunteering for demoing Eclipse M2M technologies :)

Apr 9, 2013

Agenda

Partners Recruitment* Webinars

EclipseCon France (CFP, IWG meetings)

Weekly calls format

Attendees

Ian Skerrett, Eclipse Fdn

Benjamin Cabé, Sierra Wireless,

Didier Lahay, Sierra Wireless,

Hilary Tomasson, Eurotech

Peter Niblett, IBM

Andy Piper, CloudFoundry

Partners recruitment

End-to-end demo. Need to communicate about it

#iot on twitter

Telefonica has just launched a cloud? m2m-telefonica

Andy reached out to them on Twitter

Add to the Eclipse portal

Greenhouse is nice to show at events but maybe not really exciting from an industry perspective (oil, power plant, … could be more appropriate)

Companies should be able to take the embedded gateway source code and connect it to their cloud

Events to target in Q3

M2M World Congress in Nice - end september

they are still looking for content

3-5000EUR to share a booth

JavaOne

same week at M2M World Congress

Ian to send more details

Connected World - June

Eurotech is attending

M2M Evolution - part of the ITExpo (US) - end of August

Eurotech is attending

M2M Summit - Dusseldorf - early october

One M2M

JAX

Webinars

Mihini

M3DA

Paho/MQTT: Hilary to check if Eurotech could do another webinar

F2F meeting at EclipseCon France

4th of June in the afternoon

Meeting are now moved to bi-weekly

Benjamin will send an updated invitation

Apr 2, 2013

Agenda

EclipseCon feedback (M2M sessions, F2F meeting)

M3DA/MQTT convergence

EclipseCon France

Attendees

Hilary Tomasson, Eurotech

Benjamin Cabé, Sierra Wireless

Misc.

Call was very short since most people didn't show up (Easter holiday)
Benjamin reminded Hilary that EclipseCon France call for papers is running until the 15th and that it would be interesting to get more M2M content submitted.

Feb 19, 2013 (proposed agenda)

Starting API Work.

MqGnatt contribution

Feb 12, 2013

There is general consensus that the Continua sequence diagrams can serve as starting point for REST mapping and API work. We will look for means to get that work going in one or more of the projects, on the next call. Axeda's work on the scenarios will factor into this as well.

Arlen is still intending to contribute McGnatt. It could as a "best practices implementation" in combination with some new documentation.

Possible Webinars

It was proposed that a whitepaper and/or webinar on Device Management/Provisioning with respect to the Eclipse work, would be of value. Mats will look further into this.

A security webinar to outline and discuss security solutions in end-to-end M2M application development

An introduction to the Lua MQTT client, and the platforms and applications it is being used on.

Feb 5, 2013

Attendees

Mats Samuelsson, Axeda

Patrick Dempsey, Band XI

Hilary Tomasson, Eurotech

Scott de Deugd, IBM

Continuation: discussion of MQTT related topics raised by Axeda

Scott gave update on OASIS TC. Last date to join the TC is March 18th.

There was some feedback from review of Continua Sequence Diagrams that it looks like useful input to the API work. No next steps were agreed to but we will revisit this again after Phil and Mats have the opportunity to update the Scenarios and Problems.

Discussion of MQTT related topics raised by Axeda but not covered last week.

Lua: Axeda would like to contribute to Lua Client. Scott suggested their project lead call into the bi-weekly Paho calls for an introduction to Andy Gelme.

Best Practices: There still are no volunteers for such a document but Mats said Axeda is interested in taking a lead to get this moving. There was some discussion of integration this with the pending MqGnatt contribution from Cirrus Link so we will discuss again when Arlen can make the cal.

Jan 29, 2013

Attendees

Mats Samuelsson, Axeda

Phil Lombardi, Axeda

Joe Biron, Axeda

Patrick Dempsey, Band XI

Arlen Nipper, Paho

Benjamin Cabé, Sierra Wireless

Scott de Deugd, IBM

Discussion of MQTT related topics raised by Axeda

High level positioning of the MQTT protocol (e.g. "long haul" networks). Scott and Arlen gave a brief overview of the discussion the OASIS C charter which led to describing a number of characteristics of MQTT and network topographies it is designed for. While it is well suited for wireless/constrained networks between an M2M gateway/edge and an enterprise type server, we probably want to avoid precluding its uses there, or in other network topologies. The IWG should pursue this as the topic of a white paper and it will be discussed again around MQTT-s (see note below)

Client ID:

The behavior to disconnect existing clients if a client connects to the broker with the same client ID is not ideal. It would be nice if the protocol specified that the broker should auto-assign an unused client ID. Perhaps this could be an option sent in one of the header fields?

It would be great if the client ID could hold at a minimum a UUID length of characters.

It was not clear that this needs to be part of the MQTT protocol Axeda will work this into a requirement set so that the IWG can understand the problem and work on a recommend solution in the Eclipse projects. Phil will take a look at the existing M2M use cases in the form of Scenarios and Problems, to see if they can be modified to include the situations Axeda anticipates.

MQTT-S: The community needs a public reference implementation of MQTT-S. When we performed our research on MQTT around October of 2012 we were unable to find any public implementations of MQTT-S. I remember seeing that the reason for this is that there are legal issues surrounding the MQTT-S spec somewhere on the MQTT Google Group.

Scott gave an overview of the OASIS Standardization effort and how it is positioned with Paho. Community feedback so far is that MQTT-S is important, yet out of scope of the OASIS Technical Committee. It is withing the scope of Paho and agreed to take this discussion outside the IWG calls to develop a recommendation.